← Front page

Bloomberg Surveillance · Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Local opposition to data centers is a near-term headwind for AI build-out

Political pushback and community opposition to data centers are presenting a near-term headwind for the AI industry's expansion. This, along with delays in obtaining necessary equipment, is slowing down the planned build-out of data centers.

The tape

2 quotes
And I think also really kind of the underlying ground swell also from the communities that have data centers put in them as well.
Speaker 3
And you do have a significant delay in getting all the parts and equipment that are going into building out the data centers as well. So that's automatically kind of a slowdown in the data center buildup.
Speaker 3
Heard on Bloomberg Surveillance — “Bloomberg Surveillance TV: September 8th, 2026, published Tuesday, September 8, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
Transcribed via publisher transcript · $0.00